Though not as viscerally outrageous as most of what he has said and done throughout his life, Trump and his running mate Mike Pence still perpetuate ideas and hope to enact policies that would severely and negatively affect all of us, and our families’ health, well-being, and quality of life. That’s because they both hold ridiculous misconceptions about how women’s bodies work, as well as deeply sexist, out-of-touch notions about what our roles and rights should be.

Moms Should Be The Only Ones Responsible For Caring For Children…

From widely-read interviews and profiles about his personal life, it's clear that Trump believes raising children is solely a mother’s responsibility. Not dads, nor society more generally, but moms alone. Trump scoffed at his ex-wife Marla Maples for suggesting that he walk their infant daughter down the street, and praised his current wife Melania Trump for not even asking him to do much with their son, Barron.

Only Biological Moms Need Paid Leave

Among the many oversights in Trump’s maternity leave plan (including stable funding streams, and the fact that not all families even include mothers at all), Trump’s plan doesn't just ignore men, but also women who become mothers by adopting children. People who create families via adoption are completely left out of his notion of family. As a result, instead of being able to care for and bond with their new children, adoptive parents and their kids would be totally left out to dry if Donald Trump became president of the United States.

Quality Childcare Is Easy To Create And Find…

Referencing his “Trump Kids” and “Trumpateers” childcare programs (which, contrary to what he claimed, are available to guests at his properties, not employees), Trump said, “It’s not expensive for a company to do it. You need one person or two people, and you need some blocks and you need some swings and some toys. You know, surely, it’s not expensive. It’s not an expensive thing.”

Apparently, no one has told "The Donald" about minimum child to adult ratios, facility safety and hygiene standards, certification and licensing requirements for daycare teachers, liability insurance or that working parents actually care enough about their children to check for these things. (And yes, such requirements are expensive.)

...And Is Easy For Average Working Families To Pay For

For the most part, Trump’s proposed childcare plan revolves around tax deductions, which means that in order to benefit from said plan, parents would have to be able to pay childcare costs upfront and then declare it on their taxes. That means it's a benefit that primarily helps families who are wealthy enough to afford to pay expensive childcare costs immediately and without any help (and who are earning enough money to pay taxes). That’s totally out of touch with the reality of most working families, who are struggling now that childcare costs are more expensive than college tuition (in most states).

Working After Becoming A Mother Is Solely A Personal Choice

Trump believes that motherhood is a woman’s most important job. Because Trump comes from a world of economic privilege, the fact that most mothers have to work paid jobs, whether they want to or not, is completely lost on him. His proposed policies for working moms are poorly thought out and impractical (not that his proposed maternity policies differ much from the few other policy proposals he has bothered to articulate in this regard) because he probably doesn't realize that they're actually important to most people.

Pumping Breast Milk Is Disgusting

Millions of American moms try to provide their babies with breast milk for at least their first year of life. Since most moms need to work outside of their homes, that means they also need to express breast milk regularly throughout the day in order to provide milk for their babies, maintain their milk supply, and avoid becoming painfully engorged while apart from their little ones. All moms who have actually used a breast pump know expressing milk is another example of hard work and sacrifice working moms make for their kids. Trump calls pumping breast milk “disgusting.”

Despite formally announcing his campaign in June of 2015, he only came out with this lackluster maternity leave plan nearly thirteen months later. Apparently, plans to build a wall to keep out Mexican people and banning Muslim people from our country are higher priorities (in his mind) than, say, ensuring women can heal from childbirth and assisting parents in caring for new children.